Non-IT News Thread
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
That's the county where @Katie used to live, right across the river from Westchester where I had a house up until a year ago.
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Study: Hacking 10 percent of self-driving cars would cause gridlock in NYC
Multiple networks for connected vehicles could mitigate risk of a widespread hack.
In 2015, a pair of hackers demonstrated just how easy it was to break into the UConnect system of a Jeep Cherokee, remotely manipulating the speed, braking, steering, even shutting the car down entirely. Vehicles on the road will only have greater interconnectivity from this point forward, with self-driving cars on the horizon. That poses a unique potential risk: if someone can hack one car, what happens if they manage to hack many at once in a major metropolitan city?
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Clowning on NASA: Impressionist James Adomian on his Bond-villain Elon Musk
“So we have this Teddy Ruxpin with Elon Musk’s consciousness uploaded into it…”
“By the way, my accent? It’s correct," "Musk" told a sold out theater on Friday night toward the beginning of "his" SXSW Comedy keynote, Elon Musk: The Frightening and Awful Future of Humanity. "I’m South African and also Canadian, so I’m evil but kind of shy about it.”
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US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Study: Hacking 10 percent of self-driving cars would cause gridlock in NYC
Multiple networks for connected vehicles could mitigate risk of a widespread hack.
In 2015, a pair of hackers demonstrated just how easy it was to break into the UConnect system of a Jeep Cherokee, remotely manipulating the speed, braking, steering, even shutting the car down entirely. Vehicles on the road will only have greater interconnectivity from this point forward, with self-driving cars on the horizon. That poses a unique potential risk: if someone can hack one car, what happens if they manage to hack many at once in a major metropolitan city?
surprised it would need to be that high.
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Activision adds classic Spyro subtitles months after fan outcry [Updated]
"I can't help but feel insulted by what Activision said, honestly."
Four months after its release, the latest patch notes for Spyro Reignited Trilogy note that the game has now "added subtitles in all languages (across all three games) for previously unsupported cinematics." The subtitles, which can be toggled on or off, include "character headers to identify active speakers; succinct line splits for readability; [and] colored text for improved character association in most languages," according to the notes.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Study: Hacking 10 percent of self-driving cars would cause gridlock in NYC
Multiple networks for connected vehicles could mitigate risk of a widespread hack.
In 2015, a pair of hackers demonstrated just how easy it was to break into the UConnect system of a Jeep Cherokee, remotely manipulating the speed, braking, steering, even shutting the car down entirely. Vehicles on the road will only have greater interconnectivity from this point forward, with self-driving cars on the horizon. That poses a unique potential risk: if someone can hack one car, what happens if they manage to hack many at once in a major metropolitan city?
surprised it would need to be that high.
Very true, 2% seems like it would easily do it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
When it comes to passenger planes, evidence of safety should come first, not evidence of danger. Boeing has been unable to prove the planes safe, therefore lacking evidence tha they are safe to fly, they should be grounded until that happens. Keeping them in the air waiting for the FAA to feel that the available evidence is adequate is not a good process when we are talking about safety.
The FAA failed to show an "abundance of caution" here. They didn't even show "reasonably agreeing with the global level of caution."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
When it comes to passenger planes, evidence of safety should come first, not evidence of danger. Boeing has been unable to prove the planes safe, therefore lacking evidence tha they are safe to fly, they should be grounded until that happens. Keeping them in the air waiting for the FAA to feel that the available evidence is adequate is not a good process when we are talking about safety.
The FAA failed to show an "abundance of caution" here. They didn't even show "reasonably agreeing with the global level of caution."
No Boeing showed evidence that the planes were safe before they ever flew in the first place. Technically.
Now that proof may not have been valid, but that calls the entire FAA approval process in to question and is not specific to this plane.
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Wasn't the FAA decision based on Trump telling the FAA to ground these planes?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wasn't the FAA decision based on Trump telling the FAA to ground these planes
hard to say, BI seems to imply that and that seems to be what happened, but I can't find a hard source that confirms it.
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BI being BusinessInsider
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Shading the planet doesn’t have to come with rainfall side-effects
A smaller deployment wouldn’t necessarily leave anyone dry.
It sounds like a drastic course of action: inject stuff high into Earth’s atmosphere to reflect a little sunlight and help counteract global warming. Then again, injecting a bunch of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and warming the planet was pretty drastic, too.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
As always, where's the money?
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
Herd Immunity. Even if most kids are vaccinated there is a small chance the vaccinations didn't work, a child is allergic to one of the ingredients in the vaccine, or for whatever medical reason the child can't get a vaccine (which is more common then people think, although still not that common). In general herd immunity requires about a 90-95% vaccination rate (this is disease dependant polio for instance is like 80-85%), which means everyone who is able to immunize really needs to get the vaccine.
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@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
As always, where's the money?
Interestingly enough, it would be beneficial for medical groups to push anti-vax (and maybe they are) the cost of treatment of vaccine preventable diseases is much higher then the cost of the vaccines themselves.
